[Mimedefang] Installing on FreeBSD

Fernando Gleiser fgleiser at cactus.fi.uba.ar
Tue May 3 13:40:43 EDT 2005


On Tue, 3 May 2005, James Ebright wrote:

>
> Let me preface this with this disclaimer: I am not a freeBSD admin.
>
> But, if memory serves you just need to untar/zip that tarball in the correct
> location then run the port commands described in earlier responses...

You don't even need to do that. just run "make" and it will download the
tarball to the right dir, check the MD5/SHA-1, open it, apply the patches, 
run configure and compile it. It's a kind of "abusing make"

>
> Something like:
> tar zxvf mimedefang.tar.gz -C /usr/local/somepath/wherever/ports
>
> Also, is it me or are the port commands just the regular ./configure && make
> && make install ?? (hehe, you know the saying about the cat)

The ports are a bit more powerful than that. Besides automatic downloading
and such, the ports system also checks and installs dependencies, prevent 
you from installing a port if there are some security issues and keep
version/software tracking. You can upgrade the installed ports just
runing "portupgrade".

It takes some time to get used to it, but once you get used to it, it's 
great.



 			Fer



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